Another online collab (I’ve got a couple more on the way as well), this time composed by the irrepressible David Wozmak. I’ll also give Don Nafe a shout-out for wrangling parts from multiple continents together into a cohesive rubato-styled performance that sounds like it could all have been in the same room. Oh, and Oberlehrer (whose real name I don’t actually know!) if only for the amazing second-verse piano. Oh, and the bass is amazing… and Mudcat on the guitar… and… and… and…
Sidenote trivia – these are my scratch vocals, recorded to an early piano track only, through a PG58 into an Mbox2 Mini. It was always intended that I’d re-sing them once the final(ish) accompaniment was compiled, but I had a cold, so that version was not quite as good.
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I was going to harangue you about working with the Scandinavian mob again, along the lines of “when the hell are we going to do something together”, then realized we already had. Here.
I think the only part of mine Don used was a Gabrielesque flute part I wrote for what became Roy’s solo. He laid it in the back as a glockenspiel part.
Still, I’m proud of how this turned out too. That vocal made a few females moist, I think.
I was disappointed that we didn’t get to hear more of your work in the mix. Do you still have the parts you contributed? I’d be keen to hear what could have been.
Also I’m still very much up for further collabs – don’t let’s allow this to be the swan-song
Perish the thought! I’m game when our schedules open up somewhat.
I actually don’t have anything from that project extant. I had a sweet Uilleann pipe patch weaving through the vocal in the third verse, too (thank you Z3ta+), but neither that nor the flute solo moved Don the right way. It was a project in which I felt like I could do nothing right.. and in a fit of pique I went ahead and binned the files after it was over– first and so far only time I’ve done that.